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False personation, to obtain property. See PER-SONATION....
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
Threatening or inducing any person to give false evidence
Threatening or inducing any person to give false evidence, see Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 195A. [See also Criminal Law (Amend-ment) Act, 2005 (2 of 2006), s. 2]...
arrest
arrest [Middle French arest, from arester to stop, seize, arrest, ultimately from Latin ad to, at + restare to stay] : the restraining and seizure of a person whether or not by physical force by someone acting under authority (as a police officer) in connection with a crime in such a manner that it is reasonable under the circumstances for the person to believe that he or she is not free to leave see also miranda warnings probable cause at cause, warrant compare stop cit·i·zen's arrest : an arrest made not by a law officer but by any citizen who derives the authority to arrest from the fact of being a citizen NOTE: Under common law, a citizen may make an arrest for any felony actually committed, or for a breach of the peace committed in his or her presence. civil arrest : the arrest and detention of a defendant in a civil suit until he or she posts bail or pays the judgment see also capias ad respondendum NOTE: Civil arrest is restricted or prohibited in most states. ...
False imprisonment
False imprisonment, restraining personal liberty without lawful authority, for which offence the law has not only decreed a punishment as a public crime, but has also given a private reparation to the party as well by removing the actual confinement for the present by habeas corpus, as by subjecting the wrongdoer to an action of trespass, etc., usually called an action of false imprisonment, on account of the damage sustained by the loss of time and liberty. It must amount to a total restraint of the plaintiff's liberty for some period, however short, see Bird v. Jones, (1845) 7 QB 742. As to the persons liable, see Walters v. W.H. Smith & Son, Ltd., (1914) 1 KB 595; Herd v. Weardale Steel Co., 1915 AC 67. The onus of proving the defence of reasonable or probable cause lies on the defendant. An action for false imprisonment must not be confused with one for malicious prosecution where the onus of proving absence of reasonable and probable cause lies on the plaintiff, Sewell v. National...
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...
Making a false document
Making a false document, A person is said to make a false document-who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document was made, signed or sealed by a competent authority or who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof or who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal or execute or alter a document knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or by reason of deception does not know the nature of the document or the nature of alteration [Indian Penal Code, s. 464]...
Corrupt practices
Corrupt practices. At elections these are treating, un-due influence, bribery, personation, making a false declaration as to election expenses, and incurring election expenses without the election agent's written authority. See Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), s. 3; (English) Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1-3, 33 (7); (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882; (English) Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 70), ss. 2, 1 (5); (English) Local Government Acts, 1888 (s. 75) and 1894 (s. 48); (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918, ss. 34, 35, 38 and (English) R. of the P. Act (No. 2), 1922. The (English) Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act,1911, makes it an illegal practice to publish certain false statements concerning a candidate. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 79 et seq.Corrupt practices at parliame...
Conspirators
Conspirators, those who bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other alliance, that each of them shall aid the other falsely and maliciously to indict persons; or falsely to move and maintain pleas, etc., 33 Edw. 1, st. 2. Besides these, there are conspirators in treasonable purposes: as for plotting against the Government....
Jactitation
Jactitation [fr. jactito, Lat., to boast], a false pretension to marriage, Canon Law.The suit of actitation of marriage (jactitationis matri-monii causa), though a rare proceeding, may still be brought in the Divorce Court by the express terms of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 6 (replaced by (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 21), when a person falsely boasts that he or she is married to another whereby a reputation of their marriage may ensue. The party injured sues for the purpose of having perpetual silence enjoined upon the unjustifiable boaster. See Thompson v. Rourke, 1893 P. 70....
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